This is an image I took June 24th, 2019 at a dark site about an hour from my house called Picket Post Trailhead. It is about 5 miles from Superior, AZ. The drive is not bad from anywhere in the Phoenix East Valley, but it dramatically improves contrast in astrophotography by getting away from the Phoenix light dome a...
This wide image of the Lagoon Nebula actually contains a number of special deep sky objects. This section of sky is 3 degrees wide, so imagine a slice of the night sky 3 parts out of the full 360 degree circle. On the left, there is an open cluster called Webb's Cross (M21). The Trifid Nebula (M20) shows beautifully...
